Located in the Paleozoic uplift along the southern margin of Tuha basin in eastern Xinjiang, in the superimposed Mesozoic volcanic basin upon the northern part of the Late Paleozoic Dananhu-Tousuquan accretionary arc. The deposit is controlled by NWW-, SN- and EW-trending faults. Host rock is mainly a rhyolitic-dacitic ignimbrite, but Cu-Au mineralization is closely related to quartz porphyry, rhyolitic porphyry and granitic porphyry. Ore-forming styles are dominantly veinlet-disseminations and veinlets, and occasionally stockworks. Hydrothermal alterations are mainly silicfication, sericitization, alunitization, pyrophyllitization, illitization, hydromuscovitization and chloritization.
References
- Yu Miao, Ke-Zhang Qin, Ying-Xia Xu, Tong-Hui Fang, Kui-Shou Ding, and Xing-Wang Xu (2007): Geological and Fluid Inclusion Characteristics of Meiling Cu-Au Deposit in Kalatage Ore Belt, Eastern Xinjiang, in Comparison with Typical Zijinshan-style HS-epithermal Deposit. Mineral Deposits [Kuangchuang Dizhi] 26(1), 79-88.
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